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f'speeiiication forming part of Letters Patent No., $77,818,- dated May 23, 1876; application filed 7 April 18, 1876.

. Ben known that I, Jam: 11'. Denn s, of St. -Louis, in 'thecounty of St.'L0uis, and in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sporting-Powder; I

and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The'nature of my invention'consists in a compound for sporting-powder, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth This compound is Composed of the following ingredients, in about the following proportions, viz: nine ounces hhlorate of potash;

three ounces powdered gall; one-halt ounce yellow prussiate of potash. These ingredients are all to be powdered as fine as flour, and then properly sifted, when the mess is thoroughly mixed with cooked starch or water and granulated, in the usual manner.

Having thus fully described my in vention,

what I claim a-snew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A compound for sporting-powder, consisting of chlorate of potash, galhend yellow prus' s'iate of potash, its-herein set forth.

In iestimcnythztt I claim the foregoingl have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of April,-l876. I r

' JOHNHENBY DOLDE'.

Witnesses: r i

M, L. SToWELL, I

' ALEXANDER. 

